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When Hoppy became Dartmouth's president in 1916, after working as a personnel man at Filene's Department Store (Boston) and elsewhere, he determined to make Dartmouth a college of hemen. He developed the famed Outing Club, made Dartmouth a power in intercollegiate sports, introduced a new system of selection whereby freshmen were picked not only for brains but for all-round ability. In the '20s, Dartmouth men were the prototype of U.S. collegians-prankish, studiously unkempt, boisterous at football games, busy with campus activities, scornful of esthetes...
...picture as you paint it gives us credit for being real hemen, when as a matter of fact we have degenerated into a bunch of mollycoddles...
...Stanford and Robert Carl Zuppke of Illinois- known to the public respectively as Pop & Zup-were having a joint exhibition, not of new play diagrams or designs for uni- forms, but of paintings they themselves had done. On view were landscapes, watercolors, pencil sketches actually executed by two famed hemen. Best known to the art world are the opera of Illinois' chunky, spluttering Germanic Zup. Coach Zuppke was a painter before he was a football coach. In 1905 he arrived in New York with $4 in his pockets and earned a precarious living as a sign painter (once...
...defensive strength of the University basketball team will face a severe test when it is called upon to halt the powerful attack of the West Point quintet at Hemen way gymnasium at 8.15 o'clock this evening in the first major home game of the season, and the last contest until the end of the midyear examination period...
...spite of its triumph in the foils, the University fencing team went down to defeat yesterday afternoon at Hemen-way Gymnasium before a strong Columbia team by a score...